One month since Mass Effect Andromeda was released, the patch 1.05 was very appreciable . But any news , updates on 1.06 , i'm very curious what will you do with the character creation so I hope to have some news soon as possible and I think i'm not the only one 😉
http://blog.bioware.com/2017/05/09/mass-effect-andromeda-patch-1-06-notes/
There you go people.
Eh, devil's advocate time, but... going forward how much of their revenue is going to be DLC vs. MP?
@arthurh3535 heh.. almost ALL of it. me and several people i play with would have paid 40 JUST for a multiplayer mass effect game, the single player can rot on the shelf as far as im concerned.. ill play it when ALL the content is released, but im not going to be a sheep and keep running back to the game every time they release a new dlc for single player. only a few ignorant souls will waste $ on the multiplayer, you would HAVE to be ignorant because once you understand how the drops work it becomes obvious that you arent going to buy your way to the top without an absurd amount of money.. and then what? assuming you spent 5000$ on the game you would have bought your way out of having ANY motivation to actually play the game because there would be no drops left to get.
@Nykara360 people who sit around reading fan fiction arent gamers. they are just bored people who will do anything (including play games) to waste time while waiting to die. im also going to have to assume they arent even sci-fi fans if they have to be "talked into" playing one of the most iconic sci-fi games ever made. know what works though? seeing 12 people on your friend list all playing mass effect andromeda multiplayer, because even if they dont ask they receive the message. its subliminal. the mind says "i wish to be part of that group" without the person actually thinking it. doesnt apply to single player things though, because those are all "personal".
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
@angrybunnie are you by chance talking about amplitude studios (developer of endless space and endless legend) when you say "there are even companies out there who post their issues lists publicly and let users vote on the issues they want to see fixed first" because.. well, sega is now their publisher.. so i dont think we will be seeing THAT particular bit of brilliance again.
Well, Endless Space 2 is superb - actually I *do* find it brilliant... :-)
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
@Nykara360 people who sit around reading fan fiction arent gamers. they are just bored people who will do anything (including play games) to waste time while waiting to die. im also going to have to assume they arent even sci-fi fans if they have to be "talked into" playing one of the most iconic sci-fi games ever made. know what works though? seeing 12 people on your friend list all playing mass effect andromeda multiplayer, because even if they dont ask they receive the message. its subliminal. the mind says "i wish to be part of that group" without the person actually thinking it. doesnt apply to single player things though, because those are all "personal".
Based on these comments I have to say that you have a very strange way of looking at things.
Your views on what a gamer is or a sci-fi fan, well, it's a bit silly really. Especially the sci-fi fan bit, it's like saying you have to like Slayer to be a Metal fan, as if there aren't thousands and thousand of other bands and subgenres that exist within Metal that you could like instead... but because someone doesn't like that one iconic band they are suddenly not a Metal fan? That's just not a defendable definition. That's a narrow elitist view.
As I mentioned above... Why on earth would game developers spend so many resources on games for people that you don't seem to consider gamers? Because most of the resources in this game are spent on the single player experience. That's pretty much what BW does and the MP is a thing on the side really if you look at it.
You say that that's where the money is for them, but why create such a massive SP experience with millions and millions thrown against it, if that's not what makes them the money? Clearly, that is not something that you can defend with any sort of credibility. Is it a nice money maker at the side? Does it bring in some extra cash from the suckers who spent real money on it? Sure, I'd take that money too. But if that was the main money maker for this game, then clearly they would've made a 10-20 hour SP experience tops and really focus their resources on the MP bit.
If there are people who spend 60 bucks on a game that has 5 maps to do some co-op, I say, thanks for supporting the game and I hope it's worth the money spent on it. But I've played PvP games like Unreal Tournament and MMOs with lots of group content and PvP as well and I would never spent that much money just on a MP with 5 maps. I would wait till there were more maps and the game went on sale if I didn't care at all about the SP game. I'd be stealing from myself if I look at the money spent and what I got back for it.
So let me ask, if you're not interested in the SP side of the game, do you consider yourself a sci-fi fan? I really am curious about that.
I'm sorry but anyone that bought this game for the multiplayer clearly has no idea what the Mass Effect series is about. You bought the wrong game and that's your own mistake. You can get a better multiplayer experience from the many, many F2P games that are out there. Any MP content you get in a Mass Effect game is side content & should be considered a bonus. Its a basic horde game that has already been done better in other games. It is not a priority regardless of how broken it is.
Kind regards
95% of the Mass Effect fan base
Mostly rehash and clickbait - but at least it's something.
@JDMStav wrote:
I'm sorry but anyone that bought this game for the multiplayer clearly has no idea what the Mass Effect series is about. You bought the wrong game and that's your own mistake. You can get a better multiplayer experience from the many, many F2P games that are out there. Any MP content you get in a Mass Effect game is side content & should be considered a bonus. Its a basic horde game that has already been done better in other games. It is not a priority regardless of how broken it is.
Kind regards
95% of the Mass Effect fan base
It shouldn't be a priority but unfortunately from what we've seen, it appears to be their priority. The gambling packs make them money so they're going to focus on that at the expense of the rest of the game. It's easier for them to just throw in a new weapon, a new map, maybe one enemy, instead of providing real DLC. We're just fortunate this multiplayer doesn't affect the single player portion of the game like it did previously.
Any single player notes have been vague and players had to either data mine or dive into the game itself to even find a change.
Any discussions on twitter from them have been mostly about multiplayer despite all the glaring issues with SP.
It's becoming more and more clear where their priority is and it's a common occurrence with game companies these days.
@EgoMania @JDMStav you guys are both misreading the situation.. why do you think they tacked on the multiplayer to begin with exactly? to appeal to a larger audience! thats the only reason most developers do it! dont jump to conclusions, im aware that some games are made PRIMARILY for multiplayer to begin with, nobody is saying otherwise. but ESPECIALLY in this case it was to pull in a larger base. and you know what? i have heard countless people rave about ME3 multiplayer! infact i have a friend list full of people who loved me3 and dragon age multiplayer! the multiplayer sells alot more copies than the single player would by itself, and then they charge for the single player dlc to milk people while the bulk of the team are working on their next project.
as far as elitism.. i am an elitist. not only for my honesty, but for knowing im better than 90% of the people out there. metal? for stoned pansies maybe! you dont call somebody who jogs once a week a marathon runner or sprinter because they are NOT the same thing! just because somebody engages in an activity does not grant them use of the name. i cook things every day yet i am no chef, and i OWN that. im not going to try to deny it or gain false credibility to prove that i am infact what i am not. i spend more time playing videogames than most people spend working (props to all the workaholics out there keeping the world ticking), when i say i am a gamer im owning it. its never been a fad or something i did to fit in (VERY much the opposite) to me, its been an addiction for 40+ fecking years. so i do infact take it a bit personally when you try to blanket all people who play videogames as "gamers".. if you play hidden object games you are no gamer! if you only play rpg's you are no gamer. if you have time for sitting there reading nonsense you are no gamer. would you go up to a pipe fitter and ask them "does this spot on my back look like cancer?" NO you would go to a DOCTOR for that! who the hell cares what a pipe fitter thinks about a spot?! so why would i or anyone developing a game care about what people who ARENT gamers think? am i sinking in?? if you arent a gamer you arent qualified TO have anything but an "uninformed" opinion about games. not a "considered" opinion, not a "professional" opinion, and certainly not an "expert" opinion.
bioware USED to do single player games, since 2011 every game they have made has either been full on multiplayer or had a multiplayer component. hmm.. i wonder why THAT is. could it be..
MONEY?!
i mean surely they dont care about THAT.. we all know EA doesnt! oh wait thats hippies not game developers/publishers.. infact almost every single game using the frostbite engine has ::ghasp:: multiplayer! and since they have spent alot of money creating and updating the engine we can only LOGICALLY come to the conclusion that its no accident that multiplayer is included in the games. its there by design. 4 of the 5 best selling games EVER have multiplayer modes. i dont think you guys comprehend how many people will look at a game and if theres no multiplayer they move on.. the steam forums are FULL of threads with people asking devs to atleast add a co-op mode. infact its pretty much as old as gaming itself. pong.. multiplayer game.. super mario brothers first thing you do is pick 1 or 2 players. the industry has evolved so it is alot more focused on it NOW than it was 30 years ago with you know.. the internet and all. but by all means keep deluding yourselves by saying "single player matters more" without the mass effect 3 multiplayer this franchise would have been forgotten about long ago though.
